The Bible Study Podcast, episode 474. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of Proverbs with Chapter 12.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We continue on with Chapter 12, which is another set of

proverbs that have no particular theme here, although there's quite a lot in here you'll see about

fools versus wise. And I think we'll do these one at a time. That seemed to work better last week

than trying to do them 12 at a time or 10 at a time. Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.

That's pretty blunt.

And yet what it's saying here is, if you think about your past, have you ever done anything that you regret?

Have you ever had somebody come to you and say you were wrong there?

It is wise to be able to accept that, to be able to with humility say, I was wrong. When I said that,

I was wrong. And what we can see is that somebody who is foolish will double down on that,

or they will not be willing to admit that they were wrong, or they will come up with excuses of why

it was somebody else's fault, or they will change the subject, or they will blame someone else.

But it is wisdom to be able to say, I want to be better. And the way I get better is by admitting the places where I fall short so that I can change. And if we're not willing to admit that we're wrong, how can we be right more in the future?

Good people obtain favor from the Lord, but he condemns those who

devise wicked schemes. Not sure that one needs a lot of commentary. God's more in favor of good

than evil. No one can be established through wickedness, but the righteous cannot be uprooted.

When you think of uprooted, think of that storm that blows through

and that is tearing at the trees and some trees will have poor roots and they will get

ripped up by the roots. And that's really what's going on here is he's saying, have your roots

be deep. Like that man in the New Testament who dug

down deep and built his house on the rock. It was a lot of work, but he did it, and the

foolish man didn't, and the house was on the sand. It's the same sort of thing, that lack of roots,

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